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The narrator takes care to tell us about the pink blossoms of the peach trees, the lake full of "clear cool water" What is this, an episode of Little House on the Prairie? But just like we learn that current Camp Green Lake isn't as gross as it seems, old Green Lake turns out not to be so awesome. Even before the outbreak of violence, hatred, and murder that pushes Miss Katherine into her new life as Kissin' Kate Barlow, the narrator hints that all is not as it appears.

Most of those beautiful peach trees, it turns out, are owned by stinky, disrespectful Trout Walker, the son of the richest man in the county. In the s, Texas was a place of violence and unrest. The American Civil War had only ended a couple decades earlier, and race was still a big issue. White southerners were being forced to share political power with African-Americans for the first time in American history, and tensions were running high.

Bottom line: it's not hard to see how a simple kiss between a black man and a white woman might have been so explosive. Elya Yelnats gets his screen time about thirty or forty years before the Kate and Sam romance; we know this because Elya's son is a grown man when Kissin' Kate is terrorizing the countryside.

Elya's story goes down in Latvia. The capital of Latvia is Riga. That has no sway on the story, but we're just impressed with ourselves for remembering that from social studies class, so we figured we'd mention it.

Latvia is a country in northern Europe, and in the nineteenth century, its population like that of most other European countries would have been mostly rural. We're talking about the kind of place where having the biggest pig really might be an important sign of wealth. Sir's truck and runs away he has reached the point of no return. He has run away and now his lot is with Zero, wherever that may take him. They plot to uncover Kate Barlow's treasure and escape with it, a plan that they never would have attempted if they were not convinced they could not return to camp.

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